NextBigFuture

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Thinking Machines

A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing issue in large language models (LLMs). Even with greedy decoding bu setting ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four Architectural Opportunities for LLM Inference Hardware (Google)

“Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM Inference On CPUs (Intel)

“Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance and tremendous potential across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models has been challenging due to the ...
SDxCentral

AI inference crisis: Google engineers on why network latency and memory trump compute

Google researchers have warned that large language model (LLM) inference is hitting a wall amid fundamental problems with memory and networking problems, not compute. In a paper authored by ...
Forbes

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than ...
TweakTown

Dell PowerEdge XE9712: NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based AI GPU cluster for LLM training, inference

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Dell has just unleashed its new PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 AI servers, with 30x faster real-time LLM performance over the H100 AI GPU. Dell ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I ran this bulky LLM on an SBC cluster, and it's the most unhinged setup I've ever built

My SBC cluster runs bigger models than a single Raspberry Pi, but the trade-offs are brutal ...